Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
Paul Burton
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Mapping the delay slot emulation page as both writeable & executable presents a security risk, in that if an exploit can write to & jump into the page then it can be used as an easy way to execute arbitrary code. Prevent this by mapping the page read-only for userland, and using access_process_vm() with the FOLL_FORCE flag to write to it from mips_dsemul(). This will likely be less efficient due to copy_to_user_page() performing cache maintenance on a whole page, rather than a single line as in the previous use of flush_cache_sigtramp(). However this delay slot emulation code ought not to be running in any performance critical paths anyway so this isn't really a problem, and we can probably do better in copy_to_user_page() anyway in future. A major advantage of this approach is that the fix is small & simple to backport to stable kernels. Reported-by:Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> Fixes: 432c6bac ("MIPS: Use per-mm page to execute branch delay slot instructions") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.8+ Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
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